NORMAN FOSTER FOUNDATION (UK)

Registered charity 1078282 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE NORMAN FOSTER FOUNDATION

The object of the Foundation is the advancement of education genarally and in particular by conducting and promoting the study of and research into all aspects of architecture especially contemporary architecture and by publishing the useful results of such research.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE:(I) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION GENERALLY AND IN PARTICULAR BY CONDUCTING AND PROMOTING THE STUDY OF AND RESEARCH INTO ALL ASPECTS OF ARCHITECTURE ESPECIALLY MODERN ARCHITECTURE AND ALSO BY PUBLISHING THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH.(II) SUCH OTHER PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY AS SHALL BE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME SHALL DECIDE ("THE OBJECTS")

Area of benefit: WORLDWIDE

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Registered contact address: Wandsworth, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £15,800 for the year ended 31 July 2025, increasing its unrestricted funds to £139,238. The trustees confirm the charity remains a going concern with sufficient resources to continue operations. No employees were paid, and no formal trustee training programme exists.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVID JENKINS
• LADY FOSTER OF THAMES BANK
• Lord Foster of Thames Bank OM · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Farshid Moussavi · trustee of 1 other charity
• RICHARD JOHN DILWORTH MVO · trustee of 2 other charities
• The Hon Eduardo Norman Robert Foster
• The Hon Paola Elena Foster

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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